| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LTN Chiswick Cllr Curren | |
| Posted by: | Paul Green | |
| Date/Time: | 14/11/20 08:30:00 |
| So Ken, I put this on another post, but wonder if you can help. seeming as others will not answer. Can you explain to me how closing TGT and DR address the 'traffic chaos and pollution' in London. I keep repeating this, we know the main problem in W4 is through traffic. We see the traffic flood in on the A4 and along the High Rd from Chiswick roundabout every day. Of course, a good chunk is trade and commercial plus taxis, so I am never sure where that is meant to go. I get school streets and closing major rat runs, though I note none of latter have been addressed. I am still at a loss to understand what TGT closing achieves. It certainly created traffic chaos for diverted traffic onto already busy and polluted roads. Michael told us their a monitor on DR that showed the reduction in traffic on a quite rd there lowered pollution. So by the same logic all the traffic diverted onto other roads MUST increase pollution there. Is that OK? Ken, Ruth and others helpfully point out traffic has been terrible in W4 for years. But in the last 20 years we have seen lots and lots of what we might call LTN and traffic management measures. CLosing rat runs, extending bus lanes in length and operation, bus gates, traffic signal prioritisation etc. We have also seen how many of these measures created congestion where there was none, the Stamford Brook bus garage bus gate a good example. Yet according to Cllr Lambert in Hounslow the distance travelled by vehicles has shot up in recent years. Why, and how do these piecemeal schemes stop that? Any scheme would need to part of a coherent plan to have any chance. YEt we know Hounslow do not talk to Ealing, and nor do they talk much to TFL. TFL does not coordinate itself, so local plans are not supported by any wider review of traffic and signal priorities on major arteries. So really interested in an answer. And lets be clear, it cannot be the magic 'traffic evaporation', as the last 20 years shows us that does not exist. |